Nintendo jumps on the ilovebees.com boat...

[Link Antilles]

Nintendo's trying to generate more buzz for Metroid like Bungie did with Halo 2 by creating to fake sites....

http://www.channel51.org/

http://www.orbislabs.com/



The whole story's over at Gamespot....

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/10/20/news_6111052.html


Enjoy!

[Vyse]

You know... you'd think Nintendo would be trying to make sure people know that MP2 is something different from Halo, but with this and the multiplayer mode... <_<

[Sephiroth]

Link Antilles, do you follow, the ilovebees.com halo2 stuff, i thought it was fascinating when my friend let me in on it, oh, and only 3 weeks till halo 2!

[Link Antilles]

Link Antilles, do you follow, the ilovebees.com halo2 stuff, i thought it was fascinating when my friend let me in on it, oh, and only 3 weeks till halo 2!

Yeah, I thought it was a very interesting way to respark the excitement in Halo 2… instead of the usual, “ok... here's another trailer of another level..â€

[Sephiroth]

Yeah, i'm really getting in to the story now, i wonder if any of the characters are gonna turn up in the game?

[skynes]

What!? those sites have absolutely nothing to do with Metroid... Seems Gamespot are looking too deep into stupid sites. Samantha Manus" from "Sumas, Washington." ooo it's an anagram of Samus, whoopeeedooo, and it's in Washington! WOW! I never would have thought that it was Nintendo.... please, Samantha is a common name and many many people live in Washington.

[MorwenLaicoriel]

Oh, the first one is definately a Metroid Prime site. I watched one of the short videos, and I think it's a movie from the game with some fuzz over it--the view showed Samus's gun, like you see it in the game. DEFINATELY connected.

[kaji]

Hmmm, interesting...
*Misses the point of thread and goes to check out 'ilovebees.com'*


EDIT: What the who-dilly-hey!?!?! Did I go to the right website?

[Sephiroth]

yeah, you did, it looks really weird, but if you dig around you get tons of audio files that are back story to halo 2, people on earth at around the time of the fall of reach (if you know the halo books?)

[Link Antilles]

Hmmm, interesting...
*Misses the point of thread and goes to check out 'ilovebees.com'*


EDIT: What the who-dilly-hey!?!?! Did I go to the right website?

With that response, I'm sure you found the right site. Does it appear to be hacked? There's a bunch of sound files that are suppose to make a story or something in the link that appears in the black screen area.


Original the site had a count down clock that people thought was the count down to Halo 2 or a demo. Why did they believe this? Well, "ilovebees.com" appears at the bottom of one of the Halo 2 trailers.


I can't remember the whole story, I'll check around gamespot's news archive and post a link to the full story.

[kaji]

I guess I must have been at the right sight. But I still don’t get it. I listened to some of the audio files, but the story seamed all broken up. One minute these kids were talking about one of their blind dates, the next some kid is talking to what sounds like his computer… Some girl is going whack-o and her dad keeps saying that they cant give away their ‘secrets’… But why cant I listen to the WHOLE story and what does this have to do with the story of Halo?

As far as I know, the story before the first Halo game took place on the planet where the Spartans where being made/trained. The Pillar of Autumn was Fleeing that battle when the first game began… Right?

<-- Major confusion. @_@

[Link Antilles]

I guess I must have been at the right sight. But I still don’t get it. I listened to some of the audio files, but the story seamed all broken up. One minute these kids were talking about one of their blind dates, the next some kid is talking to what sounds like his computer… Some girl is going whack-o and her dad keeps saying that they cant give away their ‘secrets’… But why cant I listen to the WHOLE story and what does this have to do with the story of Halo?

As far as I know, the story before the first Halo game took place on the planet where the Spartans where being made/trained. The Pillar of Autumn was Fleeing that battle when the first game began… Right?

<-- Major confusion. @_@

Now, I'm listening to it.... yeah, doesn't make much sense...

I haven't read the book.... only played the game.... so, I'm not sure, either.

Anways... here's the link: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/07/27/news_6103575.html

[kaji]

Days investigating: 50

In early July, an AI named Melissa crash landed, badly damaged, onto the server that hosts my aunt's website. The AI tried to orient and repair itself. The result: It turned 'I Love Bees' into a holy mess.

Now we're investigating the mess. We need all the help we can get.

*

Here's what we know so far:

Melissa, a.k.a. "The Operator," used to run communications on a ship. The ship's purpose: to spy on an enemy known as "the Covenant."

I guess this confirms it. I think I’m starting to get this. Its an elaborate interactive mystery. Kind of like when ‘War of the Worlds’ was first broadcast over the radio so many years ago.

Neat idea.

-kaji

[Debitt]

I haven't played Halo, so the entire ilovebees.com thing went right over my head, but I got a real kick out of channel51.org. Interesting idea for an ad campaign - almost moreso than Nintendo's "WHO ARE YOU?"

edit: By the way, I know how people ran across ilovebees.com, but does anyone know how people found channel51.org and orbislabs.com?

[Sephiroth]

i don't know how people found the nintendo stuff, soz.

About the fragmented ilovebees stuff, if you click the lowest link in the black box it takes you to a week by week full version of the story, the broken versions are the current weeks files, then they get put together and put up as the unbroken weekly ones.

As far as I know, the story before the first Halo game took place on the planet where the Spartans where being made/trained. The Pillar of Autumn was Fleeing that battle when the first game began… Right?

yeah that pretty much sums it up nicely

[skynes]

Did the people who made Halo claim that they made Ilovebees? If not how do you know they were responsible for it. Same for these weird 'Metroid' ones. Could be just some ppl with too much time on their hands...

[Link Antilles]

Did the people who made Halo claim that they made Ilovebees? If not how do you know they were responsible for it. Same for these weird 'Metroid' ones. Could be just some ppl with too much time on their hands...

I'm not entirely sure of the Metroid one, but I'm sure the guys who made Halo 2 are behind the ilovebees.com thing. Simply because the threatical trailer for Halo 2 (which not only is availible online, but also was showed in movie threaters across the US during the summer) at the end of and at the very bottom said, "ilovebees.com" instead of the offical Bungie website.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

definately a metrioid site. ALthough it's secret-ness wasn't as good as ilovebees.com

proof that it's a metrod site

watch sci-ops: beyond words


picture of samus right there

also watch void: the Calderon video, you see samus' ship

oh and check out http://www.ilovebees.com again.

"I FOUND SOMETHING FOR YOU"

look only at the green letters

[Locke]

um guys? check this out ,

ONI processes in SERE mode are able to function by attaching internal processing cycles to external network activity.

if you read the book you would know that ONI is the Navys inteleginence angency in the Halo world.

that came from this site

freaky eh? i just love it when companys do this kind of a sick scavenger hunt

oh and nice job smarty i was thinkin of that too, looks like you beat me to it


HOLY COW CLICK

MORE!! http://www.ilovebees.com/orientation_commendations.jpg

this is so cool but i think that this was a contest made by Bungie to get the best players cause in the role call its all screen names ,freaky

[PumpkinKoRn52]

Hey link, just to correct your initial post, they're not jumping on the band-wagon, they're merely going with the mob mentality.

[blkmage]

http://www.ilovevees.com/
http://www.ilovebeasts.com/
http://www.ilovenees.com/
http://www.ilovecees.com/
http://www.iloveskis.com/
http://www.ilovesneeze.com/
And many more.

As for the pseudo-sites, I believe they were the first to make them, starting with Datadyne and Carrington Institute for Perfect Dark.